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Convicted defendants uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice
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Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work
might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people, but
prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys even in many
cases they knew were troubled.

Officials started reviewing the cases in the 1990s after reports surfaced
that sloppy work by examiners at the FBI lab was producing unreliable
forensic evidence in court trials. Instead of releasing those findings,
they made them available only to the prosecutors in the affected cases,
according to documents and interviews with dozens of officials.


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